Jean Nicod Prize

The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. The lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as part of its effort to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive science in France. The 1993 lectures marked the centenary of the birth of the French philosopher and logician Jean Nicod (1893–1924). Besides the CNRS, sponsors include the École Normale Supérieure and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. The Jean Nicod lecturer is expected to deliver at least four lectures on a topic of his or her choice, and subsequently to publish the set of lectures, or a monograph based on them in the Jean Nicod Lectures series (MIT Press/Bradford Books; F. Recanati editor).

List

List of Jean Nicod Prize laureates from 1993 to the present day^[1]

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title	Publication
1993	Jerry Fodor	Rutgers University	The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics	ISBN 0-262-56093-3
1994	Fred Dretske	Stanford University	Naturalizing the Mind	ISBN 0-262-54089-4
1995	Donald Davidson	University of California, Berkeley	The Sources of Objectivity	n/a
1996	Hans Kamp	University of Stuttgart	Thinking and Talking about Things	n/a
1997	Jon Elster	Columbia University	Strong Feelings. Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior	ISBN 0-262-05056-0
1998	Susan Carey	Harvard University	The Origins of Concepts: Evolution vs Culture	n/a
1999	John Perry	Stanford University	Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness	ISBN 0-262-16199-0
2000	John Searle	University of California, Berkeley	Rationality in Action	ISBN 0-262-19463-5
2001	Daniel Dennett	Tufts University	Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness	ISBN 0-262-04225-8
2002	Ruth Millikan	University of Connecticut	Varieties of Meaning	ISBN 0-262-13444-6
2003	Ray Jackendoff	Tufts University	Mental Structures. Language, Society, Consciousness	ISBN 0-262-10119-X
2004	Zenon Pylyshyn	Rutgers University	Things and Places. How the mind connects with the world	ISBN 0-262-16245-8
2005	Gilbert Harman	Princeton University	The Problem of Induction and Statistical Learning Theory	ISBN 0-262-08360-4
2006	Michael Tomasello	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig	Origins of Human Communication	ISBN 0-262-20177-1
2007	Stephen Stich	Rutgers University	Moral Theory Meets Cognitive Science: How the Cognitive Science Can Transform Traditional Debates	n/a
2008	Kim Sterelny	Victoria University of Wellington	The Fate of the Third Chimpanzee	n/a
2009	Elizabeth Spelke	Harvard University	Sources of Human Knowledge	n/a
2010	Tyler Burge	University of California, Los Angeles	Thresholds of Reason	n/a
2011	Gergely Csibra György Gergely	Central European University	Natural Pedagogy
2013	Ned Block[2]	New York University	Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious
2014	Uta Frith and Chris Frith	University College London	What is innate and what is acquired in social cognition? and Mechanisms of social interaction
2015	David Chalmers	New York University	Spatial Illusions: From Mirrors to Virtual Reality
2016	Patrick Haggard	University College London	Volition, Agency, Responsibility: Cognitive Mechanisms of Human Action
2017	John Campbell	UC Berkeley	How language enters perception
2019	Martine Nida-Rümelin	University of Fribourg	Philosophical fundamentals for scientific studies of consciousness
2020	Leda Cosmides John Tooby	University of California Santa Barbara	The Adaptationist Revolution and the Transformation of the Cognitive Sciences
2021	Frances Egan	Rutgers University	Deflating Mental Representation
2022	Peter Godfrey-Smith	The University of Sydney	The Evolution of Experience
2023	Nancy Kanwisher	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Functional Organization of the Human Brain
2024	Christopher Peacocke	Columbia University	Understanding Music

See also

• Philosophy portal

• Institut Jean Nicod
• List of awards named after people
• List of cognitive scientists
• List of social sciences awards
• List of philosophy awards
• List of psychology awards
• Philosophy of psychology